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... instance on the zeal and fidelity of a few fishermen , ignorant and unlearned men , whose occupa- tion did not allow them to hold much inter- course even with the inhabitants of their own remote and THE PROGRESS OF THE GOSPEL [ LECT . I.
... instance on the zeal and fidelity of a few fishermen , ignorant and unlearned men , whose occupa- tion did not allow them to hold much inter- course even with the inhabitants of their own remote and THE PROGRESS OF THE GOSPEL [ LECT . I.
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William Gilson Humphry. course even with the inhabitants of their own remote and barbarous district . They knew so much of the world , and so much only , as they could survey from the peaceful bosom of their lake . Rude in their speech ...
William Gilson Humphry. course even with the inhabitants of their own remote and barbarous district . They knew so much of the world , and so much only , as they could survey from the peaceful bosom of their lake . Rude in their speech ...
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... course , and was offered up at Rome , he left in the city of his martyrdom , as we learn from1 heathen testimony , a " vast multitude " of believers . Forty years later , when the last of the аро- stolic band had scarcely closed his ...
... course , and was offered up at Rome , he left in the city of his martyrdom , as we learn from1 heathen testimony , a " vast multitude " of believers . Forty years later , when the last of the аро- stolic band had scarcely closed his ...
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... Course of Lectures which I am now commencing , to consider the causes which were concerned in its success , the evidences that is to say , by which men knew it to be divine , and the barriers which were raised up against its progress ...
... Course of Lectures which I am now commencing , to consider the causes which were concerned in its success , the evidences that is to say , by which men knew it to be divine , and the barriers which were raised up against its progress ...
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... course . If roads are carried by your legions to the uttermost parts of the earth , it is that they may be trodden by the feet of them who publish glad tidings . You are but making straight in the desert a highway for our God . Such was ...
... course . If roads are carried by your legions to the uttermost parts of the earth , it is that they may be trodden by the feet of them who publish glad tidings . You are but making straight in the desert a highway for our God . Such was ...
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Page 168 - I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil : and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars : and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Page 161 - In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so. Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Page 190 - But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Page 55 - Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures ; and said unto them ; Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 156 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live, are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Page 53 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.